Westcountry Photos

West Country Photos is an online gallery of panoramic photography of England's West Country, by photographer Jim Rennick.

Our eyes have a Wide Angle view of the world. Therefore, Panoramic Photographs give us a much more natural way of looking at landscapes than normal Photographs, much more of the feeling of actually "being there", more like looking at the real view.

Jim has always loved travelling and has always taken lots of photos but, when returning home, he would always feel disappointed, because these photos always failed to recapture the experience of actually "being there" in the beautiful landscapes of Devon, Cornwall, Dorset, or Somerset. About 15 years ago, to overcome this frustration with normal format photos, Jim tried taking a series of sequential photos, overlapping side by side. Then he would take the prints and cut the overlap, and stick them down to produce a panoramic picture. Those first crude, but effective panoramas started his passion for panoramic photography. Today he uses special software to stitch the images together to produce large, high quality panoramas. You will find a huge selection of these prints on his website. The site consists of galleries covering the West Country, where you can browse much larger images than you see here. These panoramic prints may be purchased online, either framed or unframed.